The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes eBook

Likewise there were two Converts, namely, Brother
Arnold Droem and Brother James Ae; three Clerks that
had not yet received the Religious habit, namely,
Hermann Craen, Gosswin ten Velde, and Arnold ten Brincke;
two Donates named Gerard Hombolt and Laurence, and
also John Koyte, a guest and familiar friend of our
House. All of these were received for the first
night as the guests of the Sisters at Hasselt, who
showed great charity and humanity towards us, and
they lamented and wept bitterly that we were driven
out with violence. But since all the Brothers
could not find room nor beds wherein to sleep, these
Sisters had compassion upon us and brought us their
own bedding wherewith they prepared a place for us
to sleep in the stable on the hay and straw, and here
we all slept commodiously enough. Many of the
citizens in Hasselt also had compassion upon us and
wept, but certain envious folk that thought ill of
us mocked our Brothers and spake lightly of them,
but of these divers did afterward repent. On
the second day, when morning came, we hired a small
ship and came by way of the sea to Frisia, the land
we sought, having taken sustenance by the way; but
we used both sails and oars and gat us across not
without great hazard for the wind was contrary.
Thus we went thither for the name of Christ and to
keep obedience to the Holy Roman Church, the which
we all desired to obey, and we committed ourselves
to God Who showed forth His mercy toward us, and snatching
us from the peril of the sea brought us safely to
our Brothers in Lunenkerc.

In the year 1430, on the 19th day of December, being
the day before the Vigil of St. Thomas the Apostle,
died our beloved Brother John, a priest who was born
at Kampen. He was third among the first four
who received investiture, and he died after midday
and was buried on the right side of Brother Oetbert.
He wrote in excellent wise the Chants in the books
that are for use in the choir, for he was a good singer,
and a man of modest character, and showed himself
to be able and skilled in divers kinds of work at
harvest time and in the building of the House.
When we were driven forth he went with the Brothers
to Frisia, though he was weak, for he chose rather
to share their exile than to abide alone with a few
Lay Brothers to keep the House. But afterward
he was sent back before the rest, for his sickness
compelled us to do this: so having fulfilled
thirty-one years in the Religious Life, he fell asleep
in the Lord.

In the year 1431, on the Feast of St. Stephen, Pope
and Martyr, Brother Goswin Becker died in Lunenkerc.
He was in the beginning of the third year after his
profession, but was not yet in Holy Orders, and he
was buried in the cloister of the monastery there.
He was the son of one John Limborgh, otherwise Becker,
and was born at Zwolle.